The Mavericks are also a rising team, their core Dirk Nowitzki is at his peak, and the team configuration is also very reasonable, but this team will always collapse at some point, such as the year Dirk Nowitzki won the MVP, he was directly blackened and received the most embarrassing MVP award, which seemed to be a mockery of him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the current Mavericks are far from reaching this point, and their team configuration is just taking shape, and they still need to run in well.

Today's first defeat of the Pistons was given by the Mavericks, so the suspense for the Mavericks Pistons is also very big, and Osborne wants to beat the Mavericks even more to prove his worth.

The Mavericks' offensive firepower is very strong, Dirk Nowitzki is also an inexplicable player, and his scoring is also very explosive, he can score a lot of points in a very short period of time, basically relying on projection, his hand is coming, and he can really shoot people to death, just like the Big Three of the Heat in 11, his shooting is really hard to shoot the Heat team to death.

However, defensively, the Mavericks are far inferior to the Pistons, and the reason why he has the hidden danger of collapse is that his defense is flawed, and their player configuration is strong offensive and weak defensive.

On the evening of Thursday, January 18, 2005, the Mavericks played against the Pistons at the Auburn Hills Palace Arena, and every player the Mavericks played was booed by the Pistons fans and spectators, especially Dirk Nowitzki, after all, the Mavericks took advantage of Osborne's injury to win a game, ruining the Pistons' winning streak, so the Pistons fans hated the Mavericks so much.

When the Pistons players came out, there was a burst of cheers on the scene, and they all hoped that the Pistons players could abuse the Mavericks at home and avenge the loss of the last game.

The starting lineup sent by the Mavericks is: center Josh Howard, power forward Dirk Nowitzki, small forward Eric Dampier, scoring guard Michael Finley, and point guard Jason Terry.

Osborne saw that this lineup is also very strong, he was out due to injury in the last game, which led to the Pistons' first loss and ended the Pistons' winning streak, this game can't be lost again, the championship team can't lose two games in a row, so the Pistons won't lose two games in a row on the Mavericks.

At the beginning of the game, Ben Wallace beat Josh Howard to grab the offensive rights of the first round, Chauncey Billups was responsible for controlling the ball and organizing the offense, Osborne was still in the position of scoring guard, it seems that Larry Brown wanted Osborne to be misplaced to play the position of scoring guard, Osborne's height and projection ability are definitely a big bug on the guard line.

Chauncey Billups interspersed twice and passed the basketball to interior player Rasheed Wallace, who received the pass and directly carried Eric Dampier to hit the ball with one hand, directly opening the two points for the Pistons.

The offense in the first round was not handed over to Osborne, not because the Pistons did not agree with Osborne's status as the boss, but because Osborne no longer needed to test his touch, and the other players of the Pistons needed to take the lead in attacking a few balls to test their touch.

Rashid Wallace is in good shape, and the Mavericks' offense is also very simple, Jason Terry passed the basketball to Dirk Nowitzki, Dirk Nowitzki clicked twice, Rasheed Wallace did not jump, Dirk Nowitzki simply shot a three-point shot, and the basketball passed through the net.

It's a blissful experience when the point guard is paired with another superstar, and John Stockton is the beneficiary of that, partnering Karl Malone, the second-highest all-time NBA player in total scoring, who also ranks first in assists all-time and has been named the assist king multiple times.

So how important it is to have a superstar teammate around him, Jason Terry's assist is also flying, this is also thanks to Dirk Nowitzki is not a player like Kobe Bryant, he is very willing to shoot, but not willing to hold the ball alone, after all, the efficiency of holding the ball alone is not as high as the efficiency of shooting, if Jason Terry's teammate is Kobe Bryant, then he will be a tragedy, his assist should not be high, because Kobe Bryant's first act of receiving basketball is to dribble through or back single.

Osborne saw that Dirk Nowitzki was also a superstar known for his projection, and he wanted to compete with Nowitzki.

Osborne also directly ignored Michael Finley's defense and hit a three-pointer, Nowitzki didn't expect Osborne to be so open-minded, but he is not a generous person, and he doesn't want to try to be underestimated.

So when they met in the first quarter, they also deliberately wanted to fight, but the two of them were not the same kind of people at all, so the duel between Dirk Nowitzki and Osborne also seemed a little funny.

Basically, both of them are projecting, neither of them hinders anyone, it depends on who has a high shooting percentage, Osborne's side just threw a three-pointer, and Dirk Nowitzki's side immediately returned a three-pointer, anyway, the two of them are ready to carry out the projection to the end.

Both men took a lot of shots in the first quarter, Osborne took 11 shots, hit six three-pointers, and scored 18 points to shoot average, while Dirk Nowitzki was not as biased as Osborne, he took 12 shots, hit 8 of them, and scored 20 points on 4-of-4 three-pointers.

In the first quarter, Osborne's stats were not as good as Dirk Nowitzki's, and the Pistons did not score as much in the first quarter as the Mavericks, who scored 35 points in the first quarter and the Pistons scored 32 points in the first quarter, a three-pointer gap with the Mavericks.

In fact, Dirk Nowitzki's explosive score was not because Rasheed Wallace's defense did not work hard, but because his defense could not play a role in limiting Dirk Nowitzki, and Osborne's shooting did not achieve the expected effect today, so the Pistons would fall behind.

In the second quarter, Osborne was rested, and Taysha Ampulins stepped up to strengthen the Pistons' interior defense, and Osborne was very much looking forward to the Pistons' defense to limit the Mavericks.

Osborne hasn't seen a star who can keep up with his offense, and Dirk Nowitzki did.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Dirk Nowitzki enjoyed the long arms of Taysa Ann Prince, who stabbed the basketball directly before Dirk Nowitzki could lift it.

Then Chauncy Billups picked up the basketball, and directly went down to the fast break with an easy layup to score the basketball, Osborne didn't expect that the Pistons' defense really played a role, and the defense of Dirk Nowitzki was not just Rasheed Wallace alone, even center Ben Wallace, small forward Taysha Amplins was also involved, and that steal was the result of Rasheed Wallace and Taysha Amplins working together.

In the second quarter, the Mavericks' offense really fell into a dumb fire, and Dirk Nowitzki was even more miserable, he missed several shots in a row, as if he didn't want to shoot without Osborne's rival on the court.

In the second quarter, thanks to the sincere cooperation between the Pistons players, they successfully completed the comeback, and at halftime, the Pistons led the Mavericks by 6 points at 53:47, although Osborne was suppressed by Dirk Nowitzki, but the Pistons also successfully completed the counterattack. (To be continued.) )